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Hi,
i have a blog with 2M/month users. I need to change the CMS. I wanna leave from wordpress and i search for another system.

I need more lightly and more secure software,'couse wordpress with all plugin and other stuff is always under attack and the server need improve every day.

What can i use ?

TY
 
You could try putting the wp admin/installation behind password, and use wp api for making a custom frontend using next.js/qwik/solid.js. That way you can keep using the same cms, yet be completely safe from the side effects of it, since the users can only access the custom frontend.
 
yea deicated, But it always pass for plugin. It's so F** annoying. I wanna change. I see other website (https://www.giallozafferano.it/ ) or ( https://www.cookaround.com/ ). Maybe it's better with custom solution. I dunno
 
You can use the WPS Hide Login. I use it, too.
I don’t like adding more plugins to enhance security. If I really wanted to use wp, I would use standard security practices since i am fine with devops and development. When I used wp for making sites, I did everything custom.

ps, hiding wp login page doesn’t do shit to other vulnerabilities.
 
https://www.giallozafferano.it/ ) or ( https://www.cookaround.com/ ).
It looks like these two sites belong to the same owner. They're on a custom-built CMS.

I don’t like adding more plugins to enhance security.
True. I use ChatGPT to write codes for me. I think I've uninstalled 5 plugins already and replaced their functionalities with custom-written codes with the help of ChatGPT.
 
True. I use ChatGPT to write codes for me. I think I've uninstalled 5 plugins already and replaced their functionalities with custom-written codes with the help of ChatGPT.
Good for you. Atleast better than using themes and plugins blindly (no offence to those who do. It’s their choice.). Pretty sure you will gradually learn the patterns.
 
What about Webflow? They're fast and secure, but maybe a bit too expensive for some.
 
You simply need GatsbyJS and Strapi. This will be one of the simplest and most robust solutions out there without breaking the bank.

Anyway, persoanlly I would maybe stick with WordPress, because migrations are always a pain and you could be losing visitors with all misconfigurations in the process, but this is up to you to move on if you feel that

WordPress feels very unstable at times, (as it is, we are not going to lie anyone, I don't have such big blogs, but with a 2M/MAU I would definitely consider a move like that).
 
I use Ghost on a couple sites. I'm not sure it's up to the level of site you're running, or how secure it is, but it is certainly much less bloated and a less popular target. It would really depend on what plugins you use in wordpress. Ghost has a lot of features built in that would be plugins in WordPress, but it also completely lacks equivalent functionality for a lot of things WordPress plugins can do. It's a question of what functionality you need beyond blog posting/editing/commenting.

So, again, not sure if it would be useful in your case at all, but you might want to at least look at.
 
You simply need GatsbyJS and Strapi. This will be one of the simplest and most robust solutions out there without breaking the bank.
Does gatsby have increamental ssg? I mean if you add a new post to the strapi backend, do you need to recompile manually, or does gatsby take care of the new post automatically after the preset cache time?

ps strapi can be extremely painful to use though, specially for a non dev.
 
ps strapi can be extremely painful to use though, specially for a non dev.
If you have it set, you only have to keep moving without having to care about this anymore. It's kind of straightforward. The real pain would be migrating

Still I believe that if he is living under a fully managed hosting, he has not felt the pain of managing the server on top of the CMS. This is why personally I don't really care much on managing a hundred WP installations (regardless of the security issues, many have been hacked in the past years).

Is just the following part of managing the server at the same time with unattended updates and all that. But with such amount of bulk visits I understand that he wants a never stopping wheel. I would never care if a server of mine drops. I would lose at most a couple hundred visits depending the time I take to recover it, since I don't have all eggs in the same basket.

Does gatsby have increamental ssg?
Nope, they use Deferred SSG, for the purpose he is following it won't matter much.
 
Wordpress is good, but not safe!

In the past I had a client who wanted to create a blog, but who was not using Wordpress, so I suggested the idea of creating it from scratch, using Laravel, that's how it was, and it went quite well. Laravel is safe, it is fast, optimizable, and good for SEO (if you know about SEO it can position you very quickly).

My suggestion, if you are having so many problems with Wordpress, create a blog site from scratch, problem solved
 
Hi,
i have a blog with 2M/month users. I need to change the CMS. I wanna leave from wordpress and i search for another system.

I need more lightly and more secure software,'couse wordpress with all plugin and other stuff is always under attack and the server need improve every day.

What can i use ?

TY

Feel free to send me URL of your WordPress website by PM and I will do a free security scan to improve your website health and resistance against hacks, etc.
 
What's about DNN cms? It runs only on windows webhosting with Plesk.
And it's free.

Is it better more easy to handle than the complicated gutenberg wordpress ?
Can you build a multiple site structure like the big media news sites have with DNN, to achieve multiple seo listings?
 
Wordpress, Joomla , Drupal, it depends on what you want to do
 
Wordpress, Joomla , Drupal, it depends on what you want to do
hey, my post about Spanish help got deleted for literally no reason, is there anyway we could connect on like. idk Product Hunt?
 
If it's only for blog post and there's no interactivity... I would suggest turning your wordpress blog into a static website, there's a wordpress plugin that does just that.

It basically transforms your wordpress blog into a bunch of static html files: it makes your blog much faster and it makes it impossible for hackers to exploit wordpress vulnerabilities

Then when you edit or add content, you just have to regenerate the static website... no manual work involved.
 
Hi,
i have a blog with 2M/month users. I need to change the CMS. I wanna leave from wordpress and i search for another system.

I need more lightly and more secure software,'couse wordpress with all plugin and other stuff is always under attack and the server need improve every day.

What can i use ?

TY
Transfer to Ghost, nothing better
 
If it's only for blog post and there's no interactivity... I would suggest turning your wordpress blog into a static website, there's a wordpress plugin that does just that.

It basically transforms your wordpress blog into a bunch of static html files: it makes your blog much faster and it makes it impossible for hackers to exploit wordpress vulnerabilities

Then when you edit or add content, you just have to regenerate the static website... no manual work involved.

Any semi professional can hack your wordpress site, the two most important weak leaks are:
your wp-admin url and wp.config.php, a hacker can easy read that file to insert malware in your mysql database.

Note: when a hacker adds malware code (who redirects to spammy websites) based on my experience with clients, all the free malware scan tools not find them.
In the past this happened on one of my clients, I done a deep research of spammy file names, then search each table in mysql manually to find and delete them, hide the wp admin url, activate direction protection- problem solved, client is happy still today and not laugh it was a fiverr seller, but I not gave them mysql access I wonder how this could happen, he modified the free elementor plugin code, maybe through this way the elementor malware code found the way to the mysql database .....

When possible never give a fiverr seller you hired the whole access to your website/ webhosting

When you have this problem and can not find out the names of your malware files, the only chance here you have is to create a new database, clone your website theme and design, graphics, images and text, and import that to a new site with a new database, a hell lot of work.

I bet these expansive cms systems like Sitecore, Wordpress VIP and whatnot, who are used by big giant media news sites, not have this problem.

Best WP protection you can do is:
hide the admin url and have directory protection with user and password (you can activate this in the cpanel).
With that a hacker not knows your real wp-admin url and not have any access to read your wp directories files.

And then after that, you can add a more secure layer to your site ; WAF, Firewall etc, etc, .....

Happy Sunday !
 
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